Posted on June 06, 2017
It’s the conversation no small business owner wants to have – how to deal with an underperforming employee.
The cost of retaining an underperforming employee is difficult to quantify as it could impact potentially each facet of your business from client relationships to bringing down the morale of your otherwise high-performing staff, and depends on the type of industry that you operate in.
Some business owners realise that there are performance issues in their business, but turn a blind eye to same. The time spent in managing performance, the hassles of finding a new employee and leaving their team short in the meantime together with the risk of a claim if they decide to dismiss an employee are all factors that business owners wish to avoid.
The employment lawyers at Scanlan Carroll are able to assist. Our employment law advice spans all of the performance improvement cycle – from providing you with a suggested improvement plan to enable you to articulate goals for your employees; providing you with advice on how to have those difficult conversations; advising you on how to exit a non-performing employee from your business through to defending an unfair dismissal claim.
If the issues are canvassed efficiently and properly, you can focus more on your business’ bottom line instead of the burden of underperforming employees.
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